Walmart - Senior Pricing Strategy Analyst
Location: US, CA, San Francisco Bay Area
Employment type: Full-time

Company profile:
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Job description:
The Senior Pricing Strategy Analyst is responsible for partnering with key internal business partners across merchandising, planning and finance to identify and recommend pricing strategies that maximize #URL_577b82235b64fdc957db772a8ce20dea8362694a5f8d2fb2bfaa6d54ffc907e4# performance against sales and profit goals. This includes creating and publishing dashboards, performing deep dive analyses to measure impact of pricing decisions and researching opportunities to increase effectiveness of pricing strategies and tools to drive sales and profit.1. Daily Pricing Operations (30%)• Lead development and implementation of price optimization tools. Research applicable techniques, develop pricing models, and perform quantitative analysis in order to provide price guidance.• Own and execute the daily competitive price change process in partnership with merchandising.• Provide support in troubleshooting, maintaining and enhancing existing and future pricing tools.2. Reporting (25%)• Drive the collection of pricing data needed to understand pricing differences between Walmart and key competitors using pricing tools; and meeting with merchandising teams to discuss current competitive landscape, future cost changes, promotions, new items, and modular updates.• Provide dashboards that convert market data to useful information. Develop and publish pricing KPI’s as they relate to each functional group.• Establish metrics relating to pricing and promotional activity and monitor performance against these metrics.• Provide context and analysis on the drivers of the pricing metrics and performance versus goals, prior week’s trend and LY.3. Pricing Analysis &amp; Strategies (25%)• Measure effectiveness of pricing strategies and make recommendations to improve.• Conduct price elasticity studies and develop price tools to measure elasticity. Track and measure incremental sales and margin associated with price changes.• Analyze the performance of current pricing strategies and make recommendations to optimize pricing rules.4. Provide Pricing Expertise and Leadership (20%)• Provide guidance and leadership to Merchants in the use of pricing tools and price strategy applications to ensure company sales and profit goals are achieved.• Utilize competitive pricing to identify pricing gaps and opportunities; perform comparisons to industry/company benchmarks.• Partner with Merchandising team and stores to provide pricing information and analysis.• Provide training needed to ensure Merchants are trained in all related pricing tools.

Requirements:
• 4-6 years of relevant work experience with at least 3 years in quantitatively intensive role, preferably focused on analyzing pricing or retail customer data• B.A. or B.S. • MBA preferred• Aptitude to analyze large sets of discrete data to identify trends, issues and opportunities• Ability to work on complex tasks with minimal supervision and formulate/refine problem definition independently• Strong business acumen. Ability to see the big picture and the ability to understand and solve for strategic objectives.• Demonstrated ability to generate innovative insights from rigorous analysis and influence business strategies and results.• Team player. Ability to work with multiple cross-functional groups, including business &amp; technical teams.• Excellent oral and written communication skills. A demonstrated ability to present analysis in a compelling, easy to understand manner.• Demonstrably proficient in Microsoft Excel, experience writing VBA macros required• Working knowledge of SQL a plus but not required

Benefits:
Founded in January 2000, #URL_577b82235b64fdc957db772a8ce20dea8362694a5f8d2fb2bfaa6d54ffc907e4# is a product of Walmart eCommerce. Our headquarters is on the San Francisco Peninsula near Silicon Valley, where we have access to the world's deepest pool of technical and business talent. &lt;br&gt;#URL_577b82235b64fdc957db772a8ce20dea8362694a5f8d2fb2bfaa6d54ffc907e4# is a lot like your neighborhood Walmart store - we feature a great selection of high-quality merchandise. We help people save money so they can live better. We also have another goal: to bring customers the best shopping experience on the Internet. By combining our physical assets with best-in-class online capabilities, we can do what no one else can. We can offer customers seamless access to Walmart anytime and anywhere through our stores, our websites, and our mobile apps. We are leveraging our stores, our logistics network, and our supplier relationships to enhance the in-store experience and take Walmart to more consumers around the world. We’re reshaping what shopping can be for people everywhere. Join us.&lt;br&gt;